Guillermo Galindo’s artistic work blurs the conventional limits that define both music and the art of music composition itself. His artwork is seen in Border Cantos: Sight & Sound Explorations from the Mexican-American Border, on view at Crystal Bridges through April 24. The exhibition includes sculptural instruments built from immigrants’ personal belongings found at the Mexican-American border. Circular Calls/Resonant Shadows is a new composition for ensemble using these instruments.The ensemble includes Galindo on string, percussion, and wind instruments; Paula Cekola on percussion and wind instruments; Joel Davel on percussion; and Tom Dambly on wind and percussion instruments. Galindo’s compositions have been performed and shown at major festivals, concert halls, and art exhibits throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Artinfusion Members are invited to an exclusive artinfusion Insight with the artist from 6 to 7 p.m.

Migration has an impact on both people and landscape. Border Cantos, a unique collaborationbetween American photographer Richard Misrach and Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo, harnesses the power of art to explore, share, and humanize the complex issues surrounding the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. The artists created works of photography, sculpture, and sound that document and transform artifacts from the border. Misrach’s large-scale photographs, along with inventory-like grids of smaller photographs, highlight issues surrounding immigration and how they have affected regions and people. Responding to these photographs, Galindo fashioned sound-generating sculptures from items Misrach collected from the border, such as water bottles, Border Patrol “drag tires,” spent shotgun shells, ladders, and sections of the border wall itself. The sounds they produce give voices to people through the personal belongings they have left behind.

College students are invited to attend an in-gallery performance by Guillermo Galindo, one of the two featured artists in the newly opened Border Cantos exhibition. Experience Galindo’s exploration of the difficult physical and emotional realities of the Mexican-American border through sound and then stay after the performance for an in-depth look at the art.

FREE to all area college students. Special thanks to the College Ambassador Program.